That classic traction motor "hum"

[Blutorse4792]

If you're familiar with old American interurbans and streetcars, you probably know exactly which sound I'm referring to.

You can hear it in the background shortly after 1 minute and 5 seconds into this video:

1. Has anyone ever made an Enginesound for this?

2. If not, do you have any ideas where I could find an audio recording of these motors without too much background noise?

I'd be willing to try my hand and making it myself, but most of the recordings I can find are either ancient and/or buried under the sounds of wheels/passengers/etc.

 

[Roy3b3]

If you're familiar with old American interurbans and streetcars, you probably know exactly which sound I'm referring to.

You can hear it in the background shortly after 1 minute and 5 seconds into this video:

1. Has anyone ever made an Enginesound for this?

2. If not, do you have any ideas where I could find an audio recording of these motors without too much background noise?

I'd be willing to try my hand and making it myself, but most of the recordings I can find are either ancient and/or buried under the sounds of wheels/passengers/etc.

I'm not sure whether this site https://www.soundsnap.com/ will help you, but there are 1,370 million sounds available. You may need to take 3 months off work to listen to them all. Good luck!

Cheers from one who listens,
Roy

 

[TimLee_TW]

There is a "PCC-Sound-001" <kuid2:82412:200121:1> streetcar engine sound made by tume, but unfortunately it only available in T:ANE's Season Town DLC.